CENTCOM has three casualty counts. None of them are the same. I’ve been staring at two documents from the Pentagon and I keep coming back to the same question: are… Read More
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Altman Proposes Taxing Robots While Selling Them to the Pentagon
The company that dropped its ethics lost to the one that kept them People think I’m a cheerleader for AI. I would say that I’m not a cheerleader for anything…. Read More
The CIA Director’s Grandson Just Threatened the Pope
The Pentagon invoked a medieval hostage crisis to silence the pope So, the Pentagon summoned the Vatican’s ambassador to a meeting in January and it went about as well as… Read More
The US Bombed Iran’s Oil Hub and Sold Oil to Hungary on the Same Day
The war is the sales pitch.
Read MorePete Hegseth Fired the Army Chief of Staff and Replaced Him With His Own Personal Aide
The Army tried to hold a standard this week. Then Hegseth fired the guy running the Army.
Read MorePete Hegseth’s Broker Tried to Buy Defense Stocks Weeks Before the Iran War Started
Pete Hegseth’s broker tried to invest millions in defense contractors before the Iran war. The investment fell through. The whole system lets this happen – and always has.
Read MoreMemphis Police Pepper-Sprayed the Protest Marshals at the No Kings March
Memphis held a massive No Kings march Saturday. It ended with pepper spray, three arrests, and a brand-new Tennessee law used to charge the people keeping marchers safe.
Read MoreHegseth Kicked Out the Queers to Replace Them With Potheads and Old Dudes
The Army will take your 42-year-old knees and your weed conviction. It will not take your trans identity. The recruiting crisis Hegseth created is being patched in real time.
Read MoreThe Sanctions Boomerang
Russia gave Iran intel to target U.S. bases. Americans died. Two weeks later we suspended sanctions on Russian oil. Make it make sense.
Read MoreThe Spending Spree Is the Receipt
The Pentagon blew a record $93 billion in one month on lobster, pianos, and recliners. Two months later, 42 million Americans lost food stamps for the first time ever.
Read MoreThe Promotion Nobody Noticed
Trump didn’t fire Kristi Noem. He gave her a brand-new title, a whole hemisphere to work with, and zero Senate oversight. The horse commercial got her fired. Not the dead Americans.
Read MoreThe Cyber Strategy That Gutted Its Own Defense Team
Trump’s new cyber strategy brags about Iran and Venezuela while CISA has lost a third of its staff and the Salt Typhoon investigation is dead. Great offense. No defense.
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